How do you become fluent in 11 languages?
Twenty-year-old Alex Rawlings has won a national competition to find the UK's most multi-lingual student.
The Oxford University undergraduate can currently speak 11 languages - English, Greek, German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Afrikaans, French, Hebrew, Catalan and Italian.
Entrants in the competition run by the publishers Collins had to be aged between 16 and 22 and conversant in multiple languages.
Alex drew on all his skills to tell BBC News about his passion for learning languages and how he came to speak so many.
Produced by the BBC's Susannah Reid.
Read More
Most watched/listened
-
Top secret space plane lands in US
-
'Thousands' paying for sex in NI
-
BBC News Channel
-
Cuba to send more doctors to Africa
-
Laxative abuse and the damage it can do
-
The umbrella made of air
-
What lies in London's drained canals?
-
Saving warship surviving from WW1
-
Nepal snowstorm death toll rises
-
Kofi Annan 'bitterly disappointed'
-
Pope's synod setback on gay policy
-
Sad plight of UK slavery victims
